Combined screen door protector and card holder



Oct. 12, 1937. w. c. WREN 5,

COMBINED SCREEN DOOR PROTECTOR AND CARD HOLDER Filed Jan. 11, 1936 INVENTOR.

ATTORN E Y5 Patented Oct. 12, 1937 PATENT OFFICE COMBINED SCREEN'DOOR PROTECTOR AND CARD HOLDER.

Walter G. Wren, Cleveland, Ohio Application January 11, 1936, Serial No. 58,744

1 Claim.

This invention relates to screen doors and particularly to means for protecting the screen from breaking as a result of pressure that is exerted against it in pushing the door open. In public 5 buildings and particularly in stores, experience has shown that people seem to have a natural tendency to open a screen door by pushing against the screen instead of the door frame. This practice has resulted in premature break- 10 ingof the' screen to such an extent that it has been necessary frequently to replace the screen many times during a summer season.

An object of my invention, therefore is to make a screen protector which can be constructed inexpensively and yet, which will have sufficient rigidity to suit the desired purpose.

An additional object is to so make the screen protector that part of the material which is used for constructing it will serve as a holderfor a placard that/contains advertising material.

Referring now to the drawing, Fig. l is a front view of a screen door'embodying my invention;.

Figs. 2, 3, and 4 are sections taken on the correspondingly numbered lines in Fig. 1 but on a 25 larger scale from that shown in Fig. 1.

I have illustrated my invention in connection with a screen door, which has vertical rails l and end rails ll. Between the end rails, there is disposed a panel of wire screen IS. The protector which I have devised is placed at a height above the floor thatis convenient for use in pushing the door. The screen protector, which is made in accordance with myinvention preferably comprises two horizontally disposed teleapart and are attached to their ends as by sescopic members I 6 and I1 which are spaced curing members l8, to the vertical rails Ill. The telescopic members may comprise either a round or flat bar that is insertable into a coacting sleeve of the same shape. The telescopic feature facilitates the use of one protector for doors of differ- 5 ent size.

To permit handling of the protector as a unit. and also to facilitate the mounting of it as a unit on a screen door, I prefer to connect the bars l6 and I1 intermediate their ends by a plate 20, 10 which extends transversely of the bars adjacent the midportion thereof. The plate which may have inturned flanges 2| extending along the vertical edges thereof, and another inturned flange 22 extending along the bottom edge thereof. The flanges are spaced from the body portion sufficiently far to provide a guide way into which an advertising placard may be inserted. The plate may be rigidly fastened to the bars in any desired manner, preferably by welding.

An important advantage of the present invention is not only the fact that the screen is suitably protected against misuse, but that the protector can be utilized in a satisfactory manner for holding an advertising card, which may be 25 changed from time to time to attract the interest of those, who patronize the store;

'I claim:--

A protector for a screen door comprising in combination a pair of telescopic members adapted tobe attached to the vertical rails of a screen door, and a relatively rigid plate connected across both members in a region intermediately of their ends for protecting the screen and holding .the telescopic members in spaced relationship.

' WALTER C. WREN. 

